Related Clues:

• Prize hopeful
• Out with it in in a manner of speaking
• Potential winner
• Bookkeeping transaction
• Diary passage, e.g
• Spreadsheet item
• New competitor
• Contest competitor
• *Hatch?
• One in an open, say
• Race hopeful
• Jotting in a journal
• Diary excerpt
• Guard decapitated candidate
• __-level